It’s School Snapshot time again!
This is Part 2 of the Snapshot featuring a school I visited while in Bogota, Colombia in March. Part 1 is here.
photo by schoolofeverything
The Hogar Nueva Granada, a school created and supported by the Colegio Nueva Granada (CNG), provides students with much more than an education.
In addition to the paid teachers and administrators, the school team includes over 70 additional volunteers and include CNG teachers, students, and parents.
Volunteers provide legal, medical, dental and psychological services, occupational, speech and hearing therapy, and educational support in the diagnosis and treatment of learning problems. These services are available to students, parents, and the community.
Monday through Friday, 210 days out of each year, the Hogar Nueva Granada provides all students (pre-K through grade 6) with 3 meals a day.
When I stopped by, lunch was being prepared for the youngest students. It looked tasty – plantains (just look at all of the fresh fruits and veggies in the photo), beans, rice, soup, veggies…
The Hogar Nueva Granada also reaches out to students’ families through a school store and parents’ groups and services. To help parents support their child’s education, the school teaches parents strategies to motivate and reinforce positive reading habits.
The school also offers an “Escuela de Padres” (School for Parents). Monthly workshops are offered for personal growth, ethics, and values. Technical workshops are offered in bartending and service, Russian art, sewing, manicure and pedicure, and computing.
On the day I visited the Hogar Nueva Granada , a group of women were knitting sweaters together.
According to their website, only 29% of Colombian children attend high school. Therefore, in 2008, the Hogar Nueva Granada started a high school program (bachillerato) to accommodate the rising grade 6 class. They plan to grow by an additional grade annually to 11th grade.
It was such a pleasure to visit the Hogar Nueva Granada school. I’d like to thank CNG for arranging my visit, the students, teachers, staff, parents, and volunteers for warmly welcoming me into their school and classrooms, and especially the lovely Amparo de Rocha, the liaison to the Hogar Nueva Granada school, who spent an entire morning showing me around the school.
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